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- November 21
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- Watch the visualiser for Michael Schenker and Axl Rose's epic cover of UFO's Love To Love
- “He soars, swoops and divebombs his bandmates… two of whom quit shortly after”: 10 of Chris Squire’s mightiest musical moments
- "Paul was read the riot act, and given the chance to put things right. But he didn't put things right": The story of Iron Maiden - the Paul Di'Anno years
- "I love programming all of the pre-show house music": Listen to the audience playlist Mike Portnoy compiled for the Dream Theater tour
- "We were just looking for a hit. And we heard the beginnings of a new kind of sound": Inspired by Australian pubs and riding a wave of optimism, Simple Minds made the album that sent them soaring
- November 20
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- Green Day, The Prodigy, Misfits and more announced for Coachella 2025
- "My idea was making The Wall, but with a better wardrobe and more glamourous": Miley Cyrus says her upcoming album was inspired by Pink Floyd
- “You see this thing on people's faces, this awakening moment, when they're going, There's a possibility here.” David Gilmour recalls the exact moment Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett tribute Shine On You Crazy Diamond was born in a scuzzy London rehearsal room
- Fred Durst having a conversation with a goblin is the most deranged non-interview of 2024
- Coheed And Cambria announce third Vaxis album The Father Of Make Believe
- "I used to be a trance vocalist." Delain's Diana Leah picks the 10 songs that changed her life
- "It was an opening into a world of rock 'n' roll, sleaze, sexuality, drugs, violence and danger." They might sound worlds apart, but The Smiths wouldn't have existed without The Stooges, the US punks who made Johnny Marr's favourite record of all time
- Genesis announce 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
- "Trevor would've loved the new album." How The Black Dahlia Murder triumphed over tragedy with Servitude
- Listen to the stories of Ozzy, Sammy Hagar, Bruce Springsteen and more for FREE - score 3 free months of Amazon Music Unlimited now with Audible
- “I was bleeding everywhere. It was wild!” Atreyu bassist has “a dent in my skull” after opening for Iron Maiden
- “We didn’t consider ourselves prog, but people said, ‘Hey, come and play our prog festival”: How Meer fought back from a disastrous start to deliver victorious third album Wheels Within Wheels
- "We’re so excited to show you what we’ve been working on." Horsegirl announce new album Phonetics On and On, share first single 2468, reveal US tour plans
- Jethro Tull share new 2024 remix of Jack Frost And The Hooded Crow
- Watch Rolo Tomassi play their biggest-ever UK show in new pro-shot footage
- Listen to the first Killswitch Engage song in five years, Forever Aligned
- Mrs. Henry have crafted one of this year's most epic rock albums with the 38-track rock opera spectacular Keep On Rising
- “Pink Floyd weren’t available. Jon Lord turned it down. So it came my way”: Roger Glover made an unexpected success of the soundtrack to a movie that never happened – but was it prog?
- The self-proclaimed heroic kings and defenders of True Metal: The Manowar albums you should definitely listen to
- "If God gets in his way he'll burn the heavens down": Tommy Henriksen's track-by-track guide to Crossbone Skully's Evil World Machine
- "We weren’t fiddling around and wondering what to do, we were going to nail this sucker": Steve Howe names the best record he's ever made
- "I wanted to inject a little touch of hope and light into it": Legendary soul singer Al Green has covered R.E.M.'s classic Everybody Hurts
- November 19
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- AEW launches epic wrestling video using Guns N' Roses' equally epic November Rain
- The official Fleetwood Mac documentary will shine a light on their music as well as the band's "chaotic and almost operatic personal lives"
- "We’re so happy to be back." Architects announce new album The Sky, The Earth & All Between: listen to new single Whiplash now
- "I wasn’t ready for a 13-minute song like Rime Of The Ancient Mariner." Members of Arch Enemy, Testament, Fozzy and Wargasm explain how Powerslave shaped modern metal
- Poppy announces 2025 North American tour
- Leprous share drum playthrough video for Atonement
- "This is Opeth’s best since the career-making heights of Blackwater Park and Ghost Reveries." The Last Will And Testament is Opeth at their most groundbreakingly brilliant
- "I was so traumatised by the music industry, severely depressed. To have the thing you love destroyed by other people is soul-destroying." How Du Blonde quit trying to please toxic men and music business scumbags, and started living her best life
- Steven Wilson's surprise 2023 Christmas single December Skies to get physical release in December
- Pre-order our exclusive Mark Wilkinson/Fish t-shirt/signed calendar bundle here
- Lambrini Girls' scathing new single Love is the anthem every person getting out of a toxic relationship needs to hear
- Bring some rock'n'roll history to your living room with Marshall's epic UK Black Friday sale - save up to £110 on speakers and headphones
- "I don’t like comedy heavy metal." Comedian Frank Skinner reveals the beloved British rock band he'd banish forever
- Primus are officially on the hunt for a new drummer. Could it be you?
- “We released a single and some fans complained there was too much pop, it was boring and they missed the odd time signatures … The funny thing is, the verse is in 13/8!” Leprous continue to be progressive even if it doesn’t seem to be prog
- Watch all of If These Trees Could Talk's headline slot from this year's Portals Festival
- "Music has been boiled down to fifteen-second gimmicks for social media": Tuk Smith wants to return us to a world shaped by weirdos and mavericks, not algorithms
- “I’m in it to win it.” Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan enters charity raffle to win Courtney Love's hand-written lyrics for Hole's Violet, a song inspired by Billy Corgan, “a guy I know a little bit about”
- "After the uproarious bash which was the 40th anniversary of our first record, Red Roses for Me, we wanted to do it again." The Pogues announce first UK headline tour in 13 years, celebrating 40 years of their classic album Rum Sodomy & the Lash
- “John Peel said we were a waste of talent and electricity… It had become de rigueur to knock us”: Emerson Lake & Palmer and the making of Brain Salad Surgery
- "I run this business like an iron fist and nobody can get in and f*** with our band": Nikki Sixx on making new music, replacing Mick Mars, work-life balance and learning when to say no
- Sammy Hagar robbed of $1 million worth of tequila in organised crime double truck heist near Mexican border
- Rod Stewart announces 20-date One Last Time North American tour with Cheap Trick
- At last! Yngwie Malmsteen launches range of multivitamin gummies
- November 18
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- "I'd rather listen to two foxes shagging in the bushes." Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher isn't buying into all the excitement around The Cure's triumphant comeback
- Save money, you will: The Lego Millennium Falcon just dropped by £210 at Argos ahead of Black Friday
- “I’m glad I took the risk, and I’m glad we have the kind of audiences that not only accept that but revel in it”: Ian Anderson looks back on his six solo albums
- “I go to rock shows. I have never had to hold my ears because of that screaming and the ear-shredding loudness. It's quite something.” Pixies/Breeders legend Kim Deal on supporting Olivia Rodrigo
- Danfest announce stage times for Danfest 13
- "Thirty years after Cop Killer, Ice-T is still committed to making music that goes harder than the rest." From THAT Pink Floyd cover to collabs with Corpsegrinder, Max Cavalera and more, new Body Count album Merciless is an ice-cold knock-out
- Linkin Park to screen live performance film in cinemas in 2025
- “When I first wake up I’m suicidal, actually suicidal.” The Who's Pete Townshend opens up about how he deals with his “chemical depression”, but admits “what works for me won’t necessarily work for you”
- Spiritbox announce long-awaited new album Tsunami Sea, share the ethereal new single Perfect Soul
- "I played him the song first, and Johnny just looked at me like I was insane." How Rick Rubin convinced Johnny Cash to record his iconic cover of Nine Inch Nails' Hurt, and why Trent Reznor originally considered Cash's interpretation 'invasive"
- Steven Wilson adds fourth London Palladium show on May 20
- “These guitars were his great love. They need to be shared, played and loved again.” Jeff Beck's guitar collection to be auctioned next year
- “Suddenly he had a different attitude, and from that moment it wasn’t as much fun… It’s strange when one of the guys is a little less keen”: How The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway forced Peter Gabriel and Genesis apart
- "In which not-so-jolly Roger regales us with his musings on all the usual subjects": Roger Waters rails against capitalism, America, war, religion and television on Amused To Death
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Watch the trailer for Beatles 64, the new Martin Scorsese-produced film about The Beatles' arrival in America
- "I started crying like a baby, it was like Jesus coming back and anointing you!" How Crossbone Skully coaxed legendary producer Mutt Lange out of retirement to work on their album
- November 17
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- Magnum release live version of the classic Kingdom Of Madness, recorded at final show with late founder Tony Clarkin
- "Let's make trophy hunting extinct, not wildlife": Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne launch Ban Trophy Hunting t-shirt in aid of "a future free of these sick maniacs"
- The laziest bands in the history of rock: 10 follow-up albums that took decades to appear
- "Peyote didn’t make me puke, but some of the other guys puked for all of us": The Eagles on Indian tribal rituals, playing with Guns N' Roses and the lyric police
- “I was on coke and dope but doing all these edibles. That’s what I’d become. My teeth were all gone”: Lemonheads leader Evan Dando on the moment he knew he had to get clean
- ‘The Hu didn’t speak a lick of English, but we both knew the language of rock. It’s a tribal warrior call!”: The greatest Papa Roach collaborations, in their own words
- “It was a dream! We’d love to meet them one day and thank them for the inspiration!” Italian goth metallers Lacuna Coil react to Depeche Mode endorsing their Enjoy The Silence cover
- “Sabbath is the best thing that ever happened to me in my life. But everything has to come to an end”: The triumphant story of Black Sabbath’s last ever tour
- “I was always so surprised that jazz musicians were into the idea of doing rock”: the story of Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime), the song that set up David Bowie’s final triumph
- November 16
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- "I was done after that, no more." Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones hasn't spoken to Johnny Rotten since 2008
- "It's kind of a mental health thing." Mike Shinoda on new Linkin Park lineup and why Brad Delson stepped away from reunion live duties
- “Our favourite bands didn’t chicken out on their third record. That’s not how Master Of Puppets or Number Of The Beast got made”: How Ghost teamed up with Katy Perry’s producer to kick things to the next level with Meliora
- Robert Fripp and Carl Palmer lead tributes to Pete Sinfield who has died, aged 80
- "The tours were getting longer and crazier, and the expectations around us were astronomical." How Powerslave cemented Iron Maiden as the biggest metal band on the planet in 1984
- “Jim’s attitude was always: ‘Look out, man, I’m hell-bent on destruction.’ We couldn’t moralise”: How The Doors snatched victory from the jaws of chaos to make the classic Morrison Hotel album
- “Some of us were getting sober and cleaning up, others were not. It’s a recipe for disaster”: The chaotic story of Jane’s Addiction’s Ritual De Lo Habitual, the debauched masterpiece that changed music
- “The most exciting thing was, even though John was no longer on this planet, here he was in the studio with us”: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Jeff Lynne on how The Beatles made Free As A Bird
- Watch The Cure cover The Beatles with James, son of Paul, McCartney on keyboards
- November 15
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- "Be Here Now is beautiful, understated and unabashedly spiritual - a stark contrast to its bloated Oasis counterpart": George Harrison's lovely Living In The Material World, revisited
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "UK/EU… stay tuned." Jack White announces No Name world tour itinerary for 2025
- “They may be calling it a day, but these masters will always have a devout tribe”: Armed with 40 years of anthems and some stellar support acts, Sepultura’s final UK show is an unmitigated triumph
- “Even just four shows will allow us to get some proper UK food and bad reviews." Desert rock legends Masters of Reality announce 2025 UK tour
- Order an exclusive Papa Roach bundle featuring a limited edition tie-dyed t-shirt
- "It's impossible not to feel thrilled by how brilliantly Du Blonde eviscerates demons from her past here." Du Blonde's Sniff More Gritty is 2024's most exhilarating, fabulous and fearless declaration of independence
- Cool new proggy sounds you must hear from Teramaze, Sometime In February, Múr and more in Prog's all new Tracks Of The Week!
- John Lodge gets in the festive mood with brand new single Love Will Conquer All
- Watch pro-shot video of Thrice playing post-hardcore classic The Artist In The Ambulance live in full
- "For blue-eyed soul fans, there are treats a plenty": Terry Wilson Slesser and friends successfully conjure up the ghost of Paul Kossoff on Forever Blue
- Beyond The Gates festival announces headliner King Diamond and 7 others for 2025
- Exploring Birdsong share video for reflective new single Stitch
- Watch WWE wrestler Damian Priest debut new entrance music featuring Slayer guitarist Kerry King
- “A Wu-Tang Clan-level thrash collaboration!” Machine Head release all-star song featuring In Flames, Lacuna Coil and Unearth; quietly announce new album for 2025
- Listen to new Elton John and Brandi Carlile duet Never Too Late, inspired by, and written for, the forthcoming Elton John documentary of the same name
- “I wound up on the bill with them in Malaysia, where I got escorted offstage by police with automatic weapons”: Despite the drama, Joe Satriani still loves Jethro Tull
- "Negative Spaces is one of the catchiest, most consistent records of 2024." Poppy has gone and made a full-on arena metal album, and it absolutely bangs
- November 14
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- Welcome To Rockville announces headliners Shinedown, Green Day, Linkin Park and Korn, plus more than 150 others, for 2025
- Serj Tankian admits he “emotionally checked out” during System Of A Down’s final albums
- Show your CD collection some love with 30% off one of our top-rated CD players ahead of Black Friday
- Midsummer Prog Festival moves to Maastricht for 2025
- Atomic Rooster announce live dates for 2025
- “Captain Beefheart possessed an unrestrained imagination and a totally eccentric form of creativity… I’d have lasted five minutes in The Magic Band”: Colin Edwin’s prog world includes Magma, Cardiacs, Gong and more
- Linkin Park announce enormous 2025 world tour, including a date at London’s 90,000-capacity Wembley Stadium
- Rock For People 2025 announces first bands: Slipknot and Linkin Park to headline, Fontaines D.C., Idles, Spiritbox, In Flames and more also confirmed
- John Hackett and John Mitchell head up this weekend's new prog night in Reading
- “That’s a gutless thing to say!” Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine once walked out of spinal surgery because Metallica’s manager insulted him
- Linkin Park go full nu metal on new single Two Faced, which lands ahead of tomorrow’s comeback album From Zero
- "A rallying point to bring the band back from the brink": Linkin Park return from the darkness with the triumphant From Zero
- “Sometimes you have to take the piss out of the nerdiness in yourself!” How Geddy Lee geeked up for his Big Beautiful Book of Bass
- "People will become conditioned to artificial intelligence and learn to accept it": Kenny Wayne Shepherd on the spark of Stevie Ray Vaughan, smoking with Joe Bonamassa, and the dumb creep of AI
- "I couldn’t believe no one had done a song about a white guy trying to be gangsta": The story of The Offspring's global smash Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
- "I went home and I wept that night": Actor Timothée Chalamet on filming the emotional scene in which Bob Dylan visits the ailing Woody Guthrie in hospital and plays him a song
- "To this day I don’t know how Brian Robertson got back to the hotel. He had been missing for a day": Through thick and thin - on the road with Thin Lizzy in 1976
- November 13
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- Tesseract announce expanded edition of latest album War Of Being, featuring new live tracks
- Epica release their second song in a month, tease even more music for 2025, will sleep when they’re dead
- If anyone fancies giving us £50,000 so we can buy Prince's beautiful bespoke guitar, we'd be most grateful. Thanks in advance, friends
- "I’ve thought about writing a will, just to make sure my daughters don’t throw my records away." With guest appearances from Ian Anderson and Joey Tempest, plus the return of death metal, The Last Will And Testament is Opeth's biggest swing yet
- Imperial Triumphant continue to confound with new single Hotel Sphinx, announce 2025 album Goldstar
- "We wanted to create something almost joyous in its disgust at the world." Benefits share new single Relentless, featuring The Libertines' Pete Doherty, announce new album Constant Noise, UK tour plans
- “It deals with the intense depression that I’ve dealt with most of my life”: Trivium’s Matt Heafy names the most personal song he’s ever written
- Mark Wilkinson to appear at art and music event at Sudbury Arts Centre this Saturday
- “Now I can look back on what was probably the most painful year of my life as a positive experience”: How the loss of a pet and a health scare brought Pure Reason Revolution back to the studio
- Jomo Tuun announce second album Critical Density Of Mankind
- In a year of unexpected rock teamups, Alt Blk Era x Wheatus may be the least expected
- "This could all fall apart at any moment." From collaborating with Bad Omens and Knocked Loose to touring with Bring Me The Horizon, Poppy might be metal's most vital artist of 2024 (just don't call her a metalhead)
- I’ve just subscribed to Amazon Music Unlimited for 3 months free: Here’s why you should too
- “You felt he understood innocence but couldn’t be innocent in the world, because you can’t… that’s where we wanted to be”: The real Syd Barrett, by the people who knew him
- The UK is currently going nuts about Chris McCausland, the blind comedian who dances to Kiss
- "Is playing a sheep-shearing shed really what I wanted out of being in a band?!" Meet the Southern River Band, the Aussie rock'n'rollers with fire in their bellies and classic rock in their veins
- Jerry Garcia's voice can now read you bedtime stories and recipes in 32 languages
- "Ritchie Blackmore never missed a note, and that ain't easy when you're about to be beheaded": An introduction to Terry Reid, the man who could have fronted Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple
- November 12
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- A guide to every Sleep Token song (and the theories behind them)
- "We found out last minute that it was the 'new Foreigner' who was gonna be playing... it sticks in my craw": Lou Gramm slams the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for snubbing the original Foreigner members
- Download festival announces more than 90 bands for 2025, including headliners Green Day, Sleep Token and Korn
- My Chemical Romance announce stadium tour to play their classic album The Black Parade in full, with Alice Cooper, Devo, Evanescence, Pixies among special guests
- “I couldn’t just stay on my sofa and not tour, tempting though that obviously is.” Public Image Ltd announce 23-date This Is Not The Last Tour tour
- "I'm just very grateful that I'd had a bowel movement before I arrived!" Rick Wakeman on his unexpected audience with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother as a teenager, and how she trolled him in public years later
- “I gotta get it on pop radio!” Michael Jackson’s Beat It was “too metal” before Quincy Jones stepped in, claims guitarist
- Maud The Moth shares video for haunting new single Siphonophores
- “Satisfying fuzz crunches and out-there solo runs… there’s an extra layer of atmosphere and weight”: The Fierce And The Dead’s Live At Ramsgate Music Hall ’24
- “You think we’d go across the pond for one show only? No way!!” Weezer reveal European headline shows and festival appearances booked around previously-announced UK show supporting Deftones
- Ex-Iron Maiden singer Paul Di’Anno’s cause of death revealed
- Paul Weller, Primal Scream, Kneecap and more to play Gig For Gaza charity fundraiser in London
- Gary Kemp shares video for reflective new single Put Your Head Up
- “Her type of voice could work surprisingly well with our music”: Celeste (the black metal band) want to make a song with Celeste (the soul singer)
- “Comfortably Numb caught in a snowstorm at dusk”: Sólstafir’s Hin Helga Kvöl shifts from sonic aggression to oddly comforting
- “Fans will experience something unprecedented”: Sabaton announce 2025 European tour featuring biggest-ever UK shows
- “We always had so much more in common with bands like Yes and Genesis… we wanted to see how far we could take an idea”: What Blue Öyster Cult thought of being called prog – and what they really thought of the More Cowbell sketch
- "Lemmy was a creature of habit; he'd have a huge line of speed and then a big fry-up for breakfast": Topper Headon's wild tales of Johnny Thunders, Keith Moon, Keith Richards and more
- The albums you should definitely listen to by Europe, the second most famous group to come out of Sweden
- "It sounds like it's from like 1997 and 2037": Finger Eleven have made an album that sounds like it's from both the past and the future
- "I don't think I can get away with a song that talks about cutting a guy's balls off": Meet Bobbie Dazzle, the catsuit-wearing, flute-playing singer reinventing glam rock for a modern-day audience
- November 11
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- "I've changed it all around. I now meet each fan privately, instead of all in a room together": Cherie Currie on meet & greets, fan camaraderie, and the global cabal behind a worldwide takeover
- Relax everyone, we can officially confirm that The Bronx are still the best punk rock band in the world
- "We've had comments like 'Darling' and 'Can I carry your handbag?' and I think it just has to stop": The strange story of David Bowie's first TV appearance
- "Once Gared passed it became something that we had to do for him, in his honour." How the spirit and soul of late Planes Mistaken For Stars frontman Gared O'Donnell shines on in his band's new record, Do You Still Love Me?
- "Even on our bad day we’ll still wipe the floor with majority of bands out there." Liam Gallagher promises that Oasis will be returning with all guns blazing in 2025
- "Detroit reflects on the worst manifestations of male jealousy and resentment." Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs share new single Detroit, reveal 2025 UK and Europe tour plans
- “Here we go again!” The Who's Roger Daltrey announces Alive And Kicking...And Having Fun solo tour, featuring nightly audience Q&A sessions
- Olivia Rodrigo to play huge London show, headlining BST Hyde Park, with The Last Dinner Party, Girl In Red and more
- Echolyn announce Kickstarter campaign for two new albums
- "This will be the best damn tour of 2025." Papa Roach announce huge US tour with Rise Against and Underoath
- "It's not the high operatic singing thing!" Queensrÿche guitarist Michael Wilton announces new solo album
- Sendelica to headline Welsh prog/psych show in London in April
- "I'm talking about people doing some despicable stuff...I’m also talking about my first ex-wife." Nile leader Karl Sanders on the fun of the 80s, being a black belt badass and how to stay authentic while writing death metal about ancient Egypt
- High Parasite are fronted by Aaron from My Dying Bride, produced by Greg from Paradise Lost and led by a fella called Tombs. You already know they're your new favourite goth metal band
- "We have a special treat for you tonight." Watch Linkin Park debut brand new song Casualty and play a deep cut for the very first time with Helmet's Page Hamilton on guitar at Texas show
- “An obvious smash in hindsight, given its chart-friendly tale of a gardener who refuses to grow up because he’d rather push his lawnmower around”: Genesis’ 10 best songs with Peter Gabriel
- "There are tantalising glimpses of genius but it's only the presence of one classic track that raises Easter above average": Patti Smith's commercial breakthrough is a flawed artistic statement
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- "It's the most people I’ve ever been ignored by when I’m playing": Eagles guitarist Vince Gill on performing at Sphere in Las Vegas
- Saturday Night Live ran a hair metal sketch this weekend and it was exactly as bad as that sounds
- November 10
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- "An emotional blast carefully packed into tight, angular arrangements": The Super Deluxe Edition of Talking Heads' 77 is focused, unsettling and damn near indispensable
- "A tidy primer for the uninitiated": Mountain's 1995 collection Over The Top captures the band at their most creative
- "One of the great man's most powerful creations": The expanded version of Peter Hammill's Incoherence offers a unique glimpse into the febrile mind of a restless genius
- Stevie Nicks has released a Christmas single with Taylor Swift's boyfriend's brother
- “We sabotaged it all to a degree. We wouldn’t play a proper set, we’d do a wall of sound”: The story of Love And Rockets, the former Bauhaus members who helped sell goth to America
- Dave Bainbridge details new solo album On The Edge (Of What Could Be)
- “It reinforced believing in something even if you don’t have any cause to”: Gavin Rossdale looks back on the moment Bush blew up big
- “You know the way drummers get, they get a bit weird when they start singing”: watch a drunk U2 completely rinse Phil Collins at an awards ceremony
- “I was very successful working in the mortuary, and then I was living in a closet. It was worth it, suffering for my art”: The dark and twisted history of Korn, the band who invented nu metal
- “If you’re going to stay friends, you have to say something if someone’s out of line. We’ve kept egos in check all the way because of that.” How Rush’s Clockwork Angels became the prog icons’ perfect swansong
- “I wanted to give it everything – to be self-indulgent or whatever”: Breaking the rules of single lengths, using an air conditioner as a musical instrument, confounding guest musician Steve Howe… these are Queen’s proggiest moments
- Jerry Cantrell says some bands earn just "1000th of a cent" each time their song is streamed
- Alien Ant Farm kick CKY off co-headlining tour as Dryden Mitchell claims he was punched in the face by Chad I Ginsburg
- November 9
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- “I’d indulge in all-night orgies of sex, violence, fighting, drinking and driving. Sometimes I even bit people on the street”: The chaotic story of Love/Hate, the greatest Sunset Strip band nobody cared about
- “I wanted to be in a band that would appeal to younger musicians like Pink Floyd or the Ramones did to me. That’s the pinnacle of our success”: How Soundgarden returned from the wilderness with King Animal
- “I had a meltdown. Cocaine psychosis took over – it’s a form of paranoid schizophrenia”: How Deep Purple split from Ritchie Blackmore and made a funky masterpiece in Come Taste The Band
- “He was called ‘the Wickedest Man In The World’ by the press – how can you fail to be fascinated by such a character?”: The twisted life and decadent times of Aleister Crowley, metal’s favourite occultist
- O.R.k. share video for acronymically titled new single PUTFP
- Threshold, Elegy, Kyros and more announced for ProgPower Europe 2025
- “Ozzy says, ‘I’ve never thrown a TV out the window.’ So I rip one out of the wall and launch it out of the window”: Zakk Wylde’s crazy tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Axl Rose, Eddie Van Halen and more
- Watch footage from David Bowie’s last ever live performance
- “Am I Evil? was me trying to beat Black Sabbath’s Symptom Of The Universe. I was determined to come up with something heavier”: The story of Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations, the cult album that invented Metallica
- “I remember knowing deeply it was a very special song”: Stone Temple Pilots’ Dean DeLeo on the making of their classic hit Interstate Love Song
- “She’s a furious texter. It’s a text storm!”: Billy Corgan on where his love-hate relationship with Courtney Love is currently at
- "A sonic maelstrom of whooshes, burbles and monumental, monochord riffing": Hawkwind's DoReMi FasOl LaTiDo, now more earthshattering than ever before
- "A melodious blanket that is both comforting and all-encompassing": The Pineapple Thief up the melancholy quotient on Last To Run
- November 8
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- 2025 Grammy nominations revealed: Metallica, Judas Priest, Spiritbox, Knocked Loose, Gojira, Pearl Jam and St. Vincent amongst metal and rock names nominated
- The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
- "This is like WWE." What happened when Papa Roach met Justin Timberlake - and got some sage advice from Korn bassist Fieldy
- Great prog you must hear from Nine Stones Close, Tiberius, Krokofant and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week!
- Brian May opens up about Queen's doubts on having Freddie Mercury as their frontman in their early days: "He did a lot of running around the place and screaming his head off. So we thought, ‘Is this going work?’"
- Elbow share video for brand new single, the motorik-driven Adriana Again
- "Oh my god, there was so much talk: ‘I bet there’s a real rivalry going on!'" How Within Temptation and Tarja Turunen formed the ultimate symphonic metal tag team for blockbuster single Paradise (What About Us?)
- Unique Steven Wilson video props are up for sale!
- "Linkin Park have crafted a genuinely great album worthy of their canon." From Zero is a resounding success that fans of every era of Linkin Park can enjoy
- 4 brilliant new metal bands you need to hear this month
- “They stopped making a furious racket a long time ago, but they’ve never sounded as elegant or assured as they do here”: Klone’s The Unseen
- “I had a wake-up moment with Jon Anderson – ’It can be this great, so why am I in a band with people who just wait for the pay cheque?” Roine Stolt slashed the average age of The Flower Kings before making Waiting For Miracles
- At war with their producer. At war with their label. At war with each other: The chaotic making of Van Halen's 1984 - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
- "This is song packed with pure naughtiness and fun": Witness Brian May as you've never seen him before in the video for Talia Dean's You Made Your Bed
- "An irresistible combination of Aerosmith swagger and finely honed pop sensibilities": Ratt's best album Out Of The Cellar revived - just don't call it hair metal
- "A scope and ambition that still dazzles over 50 years on": Aphrodite’s Child are ambitious and utterly bonkers on the genre-shredding 666 The Apocalypse Of John
- "The highlights are undermined by quite a lot of dross": Primal Scream are sporadically groovy yet ultimately frustrating on Come Ahead
- November 7
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- "A combination of earnestness and cheeky humour that is infectious and joyous": Massive Wagons conjure up more magic on Earth To Grace
- "This is a teaching album": Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin IV, by Heart's Ann Wilson
- "I've got my new band together now. I've got the Yes that I wanted": After half a century of Yes music, Jon Anderson talks about everything, from football to fairies
- Stop the presses! Maynard James Keenan has named his favourite tool
- “The fastest album they’d made, chock full of hard-headed riffs and squealing solos”: Every song on Judas Priest’s Painkiller ranked from worst to best
- “Massive. Exploring. Space travel.” After ELP’s Tarkus inspired the purchase of a Hammond organ, Elephant9 have defined and refined their experimental sound with help from across the Norwegian music scene
- "We were on a wave that hadn’t been ridden before." Papa Roach recreate the Last Resort video on Metal Hammer's new cover as they get ready to celebrate 25 years of Infest
- Airbag announced as third headline act for next year's Winter's End Festival
- “They just tour like there’s no tomorrow and they put on a wicked live show!” Mimi Barks names five young metal bands everyone needs to know
- "If myself and Dave Mustaine could have co-existed, Megadeth would have been a very different band." Kerry King on riffs, venomous housepets and which bands he'd join given the chance
- “We thought ‘the Gothenburg sound’ was an insult. Everything we set out to do was new and original.” We asked Dark Tranquillity’s Mikael Stanne to name the greatest Gothenburg metal album. This is what he said.
- The time My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way hit out at nu metal: "It set us back to the stone age...it's like a bunch of neanderthals had a microphone for 8 years and everybody had to deal with it"
- Watch Sleep Token perform live without their bassist and guitarist this week
- “More in common with the original Hawkwind Zoo than the current incarnation”: Hawklords’ Relativity casts them as worriers on the edge of time
- “I said, ‘What do you mean, evacuate now? I just ordered my hors d’oeuvres!’” The twists of fate pushing Jon Anderson to finish his next projects – even if they take 30 years
- "The looseness that the Faces were known for just became too loose. It was such an unprofessional band": How Rod Stewart corralled chaos to make his solo classic Every Picture Tells A Story
- "I was being a very bad boy. It was not a good time": Bob Welch was the man who kept Fleetwood Man going, but a decade later he was smoking crack with Guns N' Roses
- "I don't only shoot famous people, but it's fun working with cranky old rock stars": Photographer Scarlet Page on her portraits of Lemmy, David Bowie, Dave Grohl, Chris Cornell and more
- "I'm still not sure that I can tell you exactly what happened, and I was there": Slash, Duff McKagan, Steven Adler and more tell the epic story of Guns N’ Roses' Use Your Illusion
- November 6
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- In late 1967 Pink Floyd stayed at Alice Cooper's house before appearing on American Bandstand: on both occasions, Syd Barrett completely baffled his hosts
- “Possibly the most aggressive, ignorant and direct song we have ever written.” Get your head caved in by nasty new Malevolence single Trenches
- "One last time let's sing together!" Pop punk heavyweights Sum 41 bid London a fond farewell with an electric show at Wembley Arena
- Judas Priest to celebrate Painkiller’s 35th anniversary on 2025 European tour
- The world’s smartest guitar amp just got 27% cheaper thanks to Positive Grid’s huge early-Black Friday sale
- “Shamans retreat, sometimes very long, to be reunited with their power.” Heilung to go on hiatus
- Midsummer Prog Festival under threat after venue hit with noise restrictions
- “The first thing on my mind is, am I gonna get through this and be alive? And the last thing on my mind was would I ever sing again?” Bruce Dickinson would have helped Iron Maiden replace him if cancer stopped him from singing
- Solstice announced as extra night headliners as Summer's End celebrates three full-day 20th anniversary
- “Let’s jam, let’s have a good time for the fans, for us, for ourselves.” Andreas Kisser invites Max and Iggor Cavalera to play final Sepultura show
- “The band played the Reichstag in Berlin to a crowd of 250,000. He went home and told everyone… They were more excited that somebody had won a tenner at the bingo!” The grounding experiences of Barclay James Harvest
- "I can’t see us knocking Taylor Swift off the top of the charts": Balaam And The Angel are back but they're still not quite sure where they fit in
- Judas Priest's historic three-guitarist, two-drummer performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is now online
- Watch Stevie Nicks perform dramatic protest anthem The Lighthouse on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- "I am very much alive and kicking, although angry as a MF!" Scorpions drummer Mikkey Dee takes to social media to refute reports of his death
- November 5
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- "I propose that businessmen should wear clown suits between the hours of nine and five": What happened when Jello Biafra ran for Mayor of San Francisco
- Oasis announce five huge stadium shows in South America
- Kneecap to headline Wide Awake festival 2025, with English Teacher, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Sprints, CMAT among first wave of bands confirmed
- “A very expressive song with a serious subject”: Watch the music video for brand-new Delain single The Reaping, ahead of this Friday’s Dance With The Devil EP
- “Once you hit that first note and get into the groove, and you hear the roar from the crowd, any feelings of tiredness or whatever, I don’t really get”: Jerry Cantrell names the riff that “defines” Alice In Chains
- "The bondage video was overwhelming. You’re tied up, you can’t free yourself." Oceans Of Slumber singer Cammie Beverly on horror movies, her 'Roman Empire' and THAT music video
- What's in the box? No pain, just an awesome Lego Dune Atreides Royal Ornithopter kit with 40% off ahead of Black Friday
- "People would vomit when they saw it": Shawn 'Clown' Crahan on the worst injury he ever sustained with Slipknot
- "Two decades after shedding their punk and black metal shackles, Sólstafir still have new ideas to explore." Iceland's coolest metal band explore their own legacy on eighth album Hin Helga Kvöl
- Tim Bowness announces replacement drummer for Prog The Forest charity event
- “An impressive overview of his restless curiosity and hunger”: Bill Bruford’s Winterfold & Summerfold Years 3-disc box set
- "It is the biggest piece of garbage that ever happened to mankind": What happened when Celtic Frost embraced glam and destroyed their own career
- "Playing for fifteen people can be amazing experience if you make the night of ten of those people": Sepultura are coming to the end of the road and they're getting the crowd involved
- From grunge whipping boy to one of rock'n'roll's most charismatic if troubled stars: The Scott Weiland albums you should definitely listen to
- "We almost went to prison in Eastern Europe because of Lemmy": In the 90s Terrorvision were high flyers, but the fall hit them hard. Now they're back
- November 4
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- Robert Plant is the star of a new promotional film extolling the virtues of luxury high-speed Italian train travel
- Bill Nelson announces previously unreleased guitar instrumental album Studio Cadet
- “It goes as silly, as heavy, as deep as we’ve ever done”: Soft Play’s Laurie Vincent on how the duo formerly known as Slaves were determined to do things their way second time round
- "I was trying to make the music I wanted to be making, I remember wanting everything to be faster": Eddie Vedder on Spin The Black Circle, the song that reinvented Pearl Jam
- O.R.k. announce UK live dates for May 2025
- “We knew not everybody would like The Astonishing – we’re not blind and we’re not stupid – but we did it anyway. After a long career we reserve the right to do that”: Jordan Rudess’ life and times with Dream Theater
- Watch Zakk Wylde bring some metal to the US national anthem ahead of last night's NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and LA Rams
- “Bono said, ‘Everyone is blowing smoke up our arse, will you come watch a few shows and help us make it better?’”: Gavin Friday on how he became U2’s Creative Director
- “A hideous mistake”: the 1993 song that Radiohead have tried to scrub from their history
- Iggy Pop announces huge London show for summer 2025
- "There’s a lot of swearing in Hindi, which won’t run well with our parents." Indian nu metallers Bloodywood talk their "surprising" new album, THAT Monkey Man scene and why they're not expecting a call from Linkin Park any time soon
- Incubus will perform Morning View in full at 2025 headline London show
- "Defences are still a work in progress, but Shadowlight is a must-listen for metalcore fans." Rising Herts crew Defences are evolving in all the right ways on album number three
- Watch Bruce Springsteen open his Halloween show in Montreal with a fun cover of Ghostbusters
- “I don’t know who caught me but thank you so much”: Watch Coldplay’s Chris Martin fall through a stage trapdoor in Melbourne
- Deftones announce biggest ever UK show with Weezer and High Vis
- “An absolute delight… the radio sessions and live sets are completely priceless”: Kevin Ayers’ All This Crazy Gift Of Time box set
- "While its accessibility is probably overrated, American Beauty is a great album of dusty melodies laced with earthy poeticism": The Grateful Dead accidentally invent the alt.country movement on American Beauty
- "I get chills thinking of it. It was like a kid seeing Santa Claus": What happened when Prince played Purple Rain for the first time
- The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
- Court rules that Ed Sheeran did not steal song idea from Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On
- Best punk band of all time according to The Offspring? Creedence Clearwater Revival...
- Music Venue Trust warns of "complete collapse of live music" in the UK as government cuts business rate tax relief
- November 3
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- "A collection that’s nice to have rather than essential": T.Rex's back catalogue mined again on Bolan Boogie - The Best Of T.Rex
- "A demonstration of Manzanera's unending quest to make music without borders": Phil Manzanera's collegiate spirit evident on the sprawling box set 50 Years Of Music
- The first new Thin Lizzy album in 40 years is on the way – and it's unplugged
- Effigies of Noel and Liam Gallagher burnt at the stake as fallout from Oasis ticket sale takes a fiery turn
- “I don’t think we knew what the hell was going on. We were just happy that we were still around after 2112”: The history of Rush’s live albums, by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
- “I never wanted to be in a band, I just liked playing music. I was never a showman. If I didn’t have my mask on I wouldn’t be at the front of the stage”: An interview with Mick Thomson, Slipknot’s reluctant guitar hero
- November 2
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- “Slash came up to me and said, ‘Man, I got laid to your records so much.’ I said, ‘Dude, didn’t we go to high school together?’”: How Lenny Kravitz’s Let Love Rule and Mama Said turned him into a superstar
- Nightwish manager Ewo Pohjola charged in Finland with assaulting two women
- Tim 'Herb' Alexander opens up on his decision to quit Primus
- “People gravitate towards success. They say, ‘I want to play with Dio.’ I’ve always been able to surround myself with the top guys”: How Ronnie James Dio escaped Black Sabbath and launched one of metal‘s greatest solo careers
- “People used to say to me, ‘Oh, you’re better than Eric Clapton.’ I didn’t know where to put myself”: The triumph and tragedy of Peter Green, the man who founded Fleetwood Mac
- "I have left every single band I am in!" Andy Edwards steps back from Rain, Butterfly Mind and more...
- “There was a very real chance that James wouldn’t be coming back. And all that time we spent waiting was horrible”: The tumultuous inside story of Metallica’s St Anger album
- “We’d do these crazy shows with 16-inch glitter boots tacked to the piano and Neil screaming into the mic. It was like pre-punk. Audiences hated it”: Nils Lofgren’s wild stories of Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Richards and more
- “No stone goes unturned”: The Cure celebrate their new album, a goth classic and everything else that makes them great at spotless London show
- Watch trailer for Mars Volta documentary exploring intense friendship between band's two stars
- November 1
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- Within Temptation's Sharon Den Adel on sharing her political views in the band's songs: "What kind of world do we want to live in?"
- "It's always Halloween around here." Forget Wembley; a sold out Halloween show in Manchester proves Creeper are still Britain's best cult band
- “He’d been getting out of it, being drunk, unprofessional, unreliable, and all the rest of it. But I had a feeling of: ‘I’ve got to do this.’” Original Ozzy Osbourne bassist Bob Daisley was “warned” against joining The Prince Of Darkness’ band
- The 12 best new metal songs this week
- Crowdfunding started for Trivium drummer Alex Bent’s baby daughter, now hospitalised for 70 days
- It's Prog's new Tracks Of The Week! Cool new proggy sounds from Crippled Black Phoenix, Oddleaf, Outrun The Sunlight and more...
- Alien Weaponry documentary Kua Tupu Te Ara to get theatrical release in 2025
- “They turn on the switch marked ‘metal’ and summon the essence of Satan’s own belch… a new career high”: Vola mix additional textures into Friend Of A Phantom
- “We’ve never made a song as close to our core”: Deftones- and Alcest-approved synth-punks Kælan Mikla release new single Stjörnuljós
- "Our decision-making process has completely failed." The Battle Of Los Angeles at 25: how Rage Against The Machine just about kept it together to create one final masterpiece before imploding
- VOLA celebrate release of new album Friend Of A Phantom with two new videos
- According to science, metal is the most “intelligent” genre of music you can listen to - and these are its most intelligent bands
- Jean-Michel Jarre to release newly remastered 40th-anniversary version of Zoolook
- Every Testament album ranked from worst to best
- "She's made the jump from bizarre YouTube content creator to one of the brightest stars in metal." A guide to every Poppy album
- Every The Offspring album ranked from worst to best
- “Lovely, ambitious stuff… the sound of a band completely rejuvenated”: Beardfish stage a surprise return with Songs For Beating Hearts, giving the impression they’d never been away
- "I've seen Ozzy's arse more times than I've seen my own": That time Ozzy mooned the audience because he didn't think they were rocking hard enough
- "Irresistibly seductive": Warren Haynes craft some songs of deep-pile quality on Million Voices Whisper
- "He sings like a man possessed, his expression undiminished by the ravages of time": Peter Perrett returns with what might just be his best-ever album
- "A giant glitter-puff of pure magic": Rosalie Cunningham's innate theatricality and clever songwriting shine on To Shoot Another Day
- "Imagine a seamless combination of the Sex Pistols and Queen": Question Everything might not be great lost Boys Wonder album, but it's as close as we're ever going to get
- Mastodon's Bill Kelliher says bands are still trying to recover from "irreparable damage" to touring business
- Who's gonna tell him? Busker drums Red Hot Chili Peppers song without realising drummer Chad Smith was watching
